Alaska Reference Database

The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in...

From the introduction letter ... 'This publication deals with fire, a significant force in the forest environment. Depending upon land management objectives for a specific area, plus a host of environmental variables, fire will sometimes be an...

From the Introduction:'Research in the field of forest fire protection almost inevitably necessitates a requirement for meteorological data. While many projects utilize on-site observations taken concurrently with the experiment, there also exists...

From the introduction...'If left indefintely in a constant atmospheric environment, dead vegetation material tends toward a characteristic equilibrium moisture content. since atmospheric conditions in nature usually vary appreciably on a scale of...

From the text: 'The purpose of this Report is to present the heats of combustion of some forest fuels at Petawawa, and to discuss the reductions necessary to arrive at a practical heat yield suitable for calculating a fire's energy output...

From the introduction ... 'In this paper a detailed, general review of the toxic species evolved over a wide range of conditions is given, along with an outline of the physiological responses to the common fire gases and liquids. Published reviews...

From the text ... 'The results of this study show that under certain conditions direct seeding can be a satisfactory method of establishing black spruce following prescribed burning of a balsam fir cutover. The most important limiting factor is...

From the conclusions ... 'The results of this experiment have shown that Sitka spruce can be satisfactorily established on fresh to moist burned cutovers with shallow organic mantels, in Forest Section B28a by broadcast seeding without ground...

From the text ... 'Charcoal is largely unaffected by fungi or other woods destroying organisms. Consequently, it will persist in soil for great periods of time and often turns up in archaeological diggings and paleobotanical studies. The...